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Platform Engineer (Mid)

Summary

Build shared infrastructure and automation to help engineering teams ship code faster and more reliably, using AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines while integrating AI tools.

📍 Location: UK, Netherlands, or Remote (Europe)

🛠️ Tech Stack: AWS, Terraform, Ruby, Python, React, GitHub Actions, Datadog

About Tech at Bloom & Wild Group 💐

We’re Europe’s largest direct-to-consumer flower and gifting business (incorporating Bloom & Wild, bloomon, and Bergamotte). Our 60+ person Tech team builds the software powering our online shops, warehouses, and delivery logistics. You can read lots more about our technology stack and our culture over on our tech blog - Code & Wild.

The Role

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll help our engineering teams ship code faster, safely, and on reliable infrastructure. You'll split your time roughly between:

  • Embedded Work: Joining domain squads to fix bottlenecks and improve their systems.

  • Central Platform Work: Building shared tools, infrastructure, and automation for all developers.

  • AI Integration: Rolling out AI tools across development, code reviews, and incident response.

  • Key Responsibilities:
    • Internal Tooling: Create feature flags, canary rollouts, and CI/CD pipelines.

    • Core Infrastructure: Manage and optimise AWS, GitHub, Datadog, and Cloudflare.

    • Automation: Eliminate repetitive manual tasks for engineering teams, utilising AI tools where you can.

    • Production Support: Guide squads on managing their own apps using metrics, logs, and SLOs.

What We're Looking For

  • AWS & Terraform: Hands-on experience (specifically ECS Fargate, RDS, Lambda, or EventBridge).

  • CI/CD & Observability: Strong understanding of deployment pipelines and system monitoring.

  • Modern Tools: Interest in using AI tools in daily software engineering.

  • Codebases: Comfortable working with application code in Ruby or Python and navigating ambiguous problems.

  • This role would be great for a Junior or new Mid, looking for the next step. Don't check every box? Please apply anyway! We hire for potential and diverse perspectives over exhaustive checklists.

Benefits & Perks

  • Flexibility: Core hours (10–4), hybrid or remote working, plus up to 45 days per year to work abroad.
  • 🌴 Time Off: 25 days holiday + birthday + flexible bank holidays (option to buy 5 extra days).
  • 🌱 Growth & Support: Health cash plan, free therapy (Open Up), equity options, learning budget, and generous product discounts.
  • How We Hire

    1. 2-Min Application
    2. Initial Chat (30 mins with Chloe, Talent Acquisition Manager)
    3. Team Interview (45 mins with the Platform team)
    4. Technical Session (60-min live pairing exercise)
    5. Final Chat (45 mins with Steve, Tech Leadership)
    (Need interview adjustments? Just let us know in your application, we're happy to support you.)

    What this application asks

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    Which location are you applying for?, Resume/CV, Full name, Pronouns, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, Portfolio URL, LinkedIn URL, GitHub URL, ConsentI hereby consent to the processing of my responses for the purpose of supporting Bloom & Wild in evaluating and improving recruitment, diversity and inclusion efforts, as further described in the Bloom & Wild privacy statement. I understand that I have the right to withdraw my consent at any time by contacting Bloom & Wild at [email protected]., Which age group do you belong to?, I prefer to identify as, What are the pronouns for others to use when referring to you?, With which sexuality do you identify?, With which faith do you identify?, Do you consider yourself to have a disability?, If yes, do you need special arrangements to accommodate you during your interview stages? If yes, please reach out to our recruiters so they can support.

    • What is your right to work status for the UK? choose one
    • Other written answer · optional
    • When are you available to start a new role?
    • Do you currently use AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, Cursor) as a core part of your daily workflow? If yes, please detail the tools you've used. written answer
    • Do you have experience working on an e-commerce site or in a fast-growing consumer-facing environment? yes / no · optional

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